self-demeaning

Updated: May 18, 2025

If he chastised his son, it was with the judicial majesty of a king, and never with a self-demeaning show of anger. He ate and drank in his own house like a guest of state at a feast; he drove his fine sorrel in his sulky like a war-horse in a chariot.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Jerome, A Poor Man: A Novel